Madrid and Burgos, 1936-1939: visual representation of the women in the spanish civil war through the national library's photograph archive

Authors

  • Beatriz de las Heras Herrero Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2011v7n10p147

Keywords:

Photography, Spanish Civil War, Women.

Abstract

Based on the need to analyze the photo from all prisms possible, including your front and back, and the argument that photography is primarily an iconic act that requiresthe questioning, this article has sought to discuss the representation visual of womenthrough the photographic collection of the Spanish Civil War. To achieve this objective, the paper has presented some visual examples of photographs that portray the activity of women who lived through the war in Madrid and Burgos and the result of
researchsuggests that, Despite that the messages have different utterances, the fact is that the images are preserved show that the activity of women on both sides was the same, although these images have different characteristics.

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Author Biography

Beatriz de las Heras Herrero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Doctora en Humanidades y Profesora de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid en el Área de Historia Contemporánea del Departamento de Humanidades. Especialista en el estudio de la Guerra Civil Española desde las fuentes visuales: fotografía, cine y carteles. Ha sido profesora invitada en la Universidad de Burgos, Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora (Argentina), Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brasil), Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste de Bahia (Brasil), Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasil), en la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III (Francia) y en el Middlebury Collage.

How to Cite

Heras Herrero, B. de las. (2011). Madrid and Burgos, 1936-1939: visual representation of the women in the spanish civil war through the national library’s photograph archive. Discursos Fotograficos, 7(10), 147–172. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2011v7n10p147

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